Flight attendant leaders from the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) met this week with the offices of several influential Senators to promote moving forward with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization bill, which includes many key provisions for flight attendants.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s lead investigator at the Kleen Energy disaster in Middletown, Conn., said this morning that the “gas blow” practice being used at the plant at the time of the Feb. 7 explosion was “inherently unsafe.”

An inspection that found that a 10-foot deep trench containing employees had no ladder, stairs, or ramp to ensure a safe exit, and no adequate protection was in place to protect employees from cave-ins.

The five-year environmental mystery at Oak Ridge Elementary School came to what Guilford County Schools hopes is a close on Monday, Feb. 22, when the school system returned 700 students to the school after seven months in temporary quarters.

A Maryland Senate panel will ask the Department of Juvenile Services secretary to brief them on the death of a teacher last week at a state juvenile facility in prince George’s County, as other agencies and the union that represents employees said they have been blocked from making inquiries.

The danger of secondhand smoke is no longer an issue in most workplaces thanks to state and local smoking bans. But Nevada has protected its casinos from smoking bans — the reason why chronic obstructive pulmonary disease kills at a higher rate in this state than others, according to the American Lung Association.

A survey by the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) of 24 leading companies that operate fleets shows that 74 percent either have policies in place or are planning to implement policies that ban the use of all mobile devices while driving company vehicles.

“While we cannot discuss MOSH’s ongoing investigation of the homicide that occurred on the grounds of the Cheltenham youth detention center, we are fully aware of the significant risk of job-related violence faced by health care and social service workers,” wrote the commissioner of labor and industry in the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.

Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. energy company, showed “reckless and reprehensible” behavior by failing to protect workers from dangerous radioactive material in used oil-drilling pipes, a lawyer for 16 men told a Louisiana jury.

Investigators with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined, according to an internal memo summarizing the accident, that the unidentified electrician was “over tasked” that night, though it is unclear whether the agency thought Disney had assigned him too many responsibilities or whether the electrician himself tried to do too much at once.

After nvestigating the death of a crane operator last month, Theresa Naim, OSHA’s area director, said the Erie, Penn., company’s equipment, workplace safety, training and emergency response were all fine.

Unsafe hoisting operations and inappropriate procedures for lifting boats at Pages Creek Marine likely contributed to the death of an employee there last October, according to a citation report issued last month.

A flood of mine owner appeals of health and safety violations are delaying tougher penalties for the country’s most dangerous mines and undermining efforts to protect miners, witnesses told the House Education and Labor Committee today.

While the majority of all lawmaker offices on Capitol Hill have at least one health or safety hazard violation, this year’s inspection data from the Office of Compliance inspections is an improvement over last year’s.

A Perry company was one of two cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for safety violations in an August incident where a worker fell to his death in New Hampshire.

OSHA is proposing to revise its Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulation by restoring a column on the OSHA Form 300 to identify work-related musculoskeletal disorders, or MSDs.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited two contractors for alleged violations of safety standards involving the death last August of a worker who fell from a New Hampshire water tower.

An investigation of a July 2009 accident at the Oroville, Calif., Dam power plant found that the Department of Water Resources knowingly put its employees in harm’s way by instructing them to perform a task amid dangerous conditions.

Compared to those in other occupations, social services workers, including teachers of troubled youth and with those who work in professions such as mental health and health care, are disproportionately hurt by violence and assault from their students or patients. Furthermore, being a public sector employee dramatically increases that risk.

Anyone who’s ever been to a similar concert, or worked at a construction site or blared the car radio with the windows up, has probably experienced a whirring, swishing, buzzing, ringing sound that originates in the ear or head.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that you protect your employees from the risk of bloodborne pathogens (BBP). Workers in many different occupations may be exposed to a variety of BBPs, including Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV.

Through the OSHA and Scaffold Industry Association Alliance, SIA has developed “Transport Platform Safety Tips,” which are designed to educate users on the correct way to perform their work on transport platform equipment.

An investigation into possible environmental contamination at a day care center and another building at the Bannister Federal Complex was delayed almost two years because of quibbling over a few thousand dollars.

Recent news headlines underscore the serious concern of workplace violence today. Establishing a positive workplace environment and knowing what warning clues to look for goes a long way in workplace violence prevention.

Investigators still have not found the source of a radioactive leak that has contaminated groundwater around the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, nor have they been able to determine the extent of the contamination.

A worker put out a frantic last-minute radio call to evacuate the Kleen Energy Systems plant just before a massive explosion tore through the facility on February 7, killing 5 workers and injuring 27 others.

Lawyers defending New York City against thousands of lawsuits filed by Sept. 11 emergency responders say many of the claims are baseless and have asked a judge to dismiss some of the first cases headed toward trial.